Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-08-03


Abilene.
Late potatoes will make full crop
since the lain.
Baby carriages at Higgins, of every
variety and price. so
Capt. A. G.. Evans was here last Sat-
urday and Sunday.
Buy your fresh meats at Mobiles, in
the gypsum building. AZ
Bitter creek could not be forded Mon
day morning for two hours.
The best cent cigar in town in at
Pearson's City Drug Store. 5
Bronson & Houchin have money at
low rates to loan on improved farms.
For RENT-Two business rooms, op-
posite the court house. ID. a. McCan-
less.
a two-ton refrigerator keeps all fresh
meat in good order at the Central meat
market. 4
The late rain was not local shower,
but extended to every corner of Barber
county.
The best beef to be had in town is a
the Central meat market, opposite 1st
National bank. 4
Hats for young men, old men and
boys, soft, stiff or straw at Stamford,
YOumans & Eldred's. So
The stock pound is completed and Mr..
IIorney will see that it is properly look
ed after. And now, kill the dogs.
You will find that when w. M.
Wheeler advertises anything at cost,
he is selling them at actual cost, and
no bunJug. 10
Farmers, paint your houses, barnes
and fences with the best ready-mixed
paints, to be had at Pearson's City
Drug Store. 5
Groceries, and especially sugar can
be bought at w. NJ. Wheelers as cheap
as any house in town. Get ready for
preserving your fruit. 8
The waterworks election Will occur
tomorrow, August 4th. twill require
majority of those voting at the cleo
ton to carry the bonds.
viii Cook made his debut last Sun
day evening, at the services in the
grove, rs u cornet solOist, and consider
ing that it was his first experience, he
did well.
The Willing Workers, of the Chris
tian church, will meet at the parsonage,
with Mrs. Mcfarland, on Wednesday
afternoon, of next week, Aug. 10th.
Mrs. WALDRoN CHASE, Sec.
The reliable Burlington insurance
company has within the past year, paid
II losses in this county, Oh account of
cyclones and lightning and on account
of fires. M. l.. Wilcox, the agent for
this county, reports considerable activ-
ity in his business.
A firm that handles only first class
and strictly pure goods, is the oldest
and most reliable in the county, Stan
diford, Youmans & Eldred. This firm
is daily in receipt of an invoice, and
yet it keeps one man busy ordering.
They do not sell at cost, but do not
want exhorbitant profits. Their bust
ness is conducted on the live and let
live" principle. 3
TIE FIRST NATIONAL BANK Is MA
KING FARM LOANS on BETTER TERMS
FOR TIE BORROWER THAN CAN DE Of
FERED ELSEWHERE. ALL INTEREST
Is PAYABLE At THEIR OFFICE, THUS
SAVING EXPENSE OF REMITTING TIE
MONEY. CONSULT YOUR OWN INTEREST
BY CALLING on THEN BEFORE CON
TRACTING FOR A LOAN ON YOUR FARM.
DIR. G. l.. Dunn, late of Nescatunga,
has located here and will devote his en-
tire time to the practice of medicine aud
surgery. DIR. Dunn lived here year,
prior to 1881, and built up a good prac-
tice which he gave up when he went
into the work of organizing Comancbe
county and locating Nescatunga. He
is successful practitioner. With his
family, he lives in the Standiford house
on South Walnut street.
Last Wednesday, it was discovered
that IL head of horses and mules had
disappeared from the Richards IL Rog-
ers, ranch, 6 miles south of here, and
the conclusion was arrived at that the
animals had been stolen. Reward
cards were sent far and wide by Sheriff
Nelson, but that afternoon the stock was
Dissolved OH Mule creek, six or seven
miles from home. A mule in the lot
had on a chain hobble, and when he
would come up with the stock, the rat
tie of the links would scare the animals
and that was how they happened to be
so far from home.
Mr.. j. II. Young has reason to get
little mad once in a while. Ills lot of
Chester pigs have given him more
trouble than they are worth, and they
act like they would as soon die as live.
One of his fine Jersey cows got toe
broken few days ago, and last Friday
his colt managed to get a splinter into
its breast. The splinter was half an
inch in diameter, and went in an inch
and a half. He is now looking for
lightning TO strike his calves, or expect
ing his bantam rooster TO knock his
brains out on a grindstone, or some
such unlocked for accident.
Elder Mulkey, who has been preach
ing at Meade Center for the past six
months, came in two weeks ago on a visit
to his family, who will this week re-
move with him to that place. About
ten days ago, at night, there was fire
at Meade Center, which destroyed
about ten houses, and among the num-
Der was the house where Elder Mulkey
boarded. Some one threw his trunk
and goods out of the second story win